Underwear company to shrink work week to save jobs

Two-hundred employees at an underwear manufacturing company in Nova Scotia can expect to be working a four-day week next month to avoid layoffs.

The work-sharing plan involves half the workforce at the Stanfield's operation in Truro.

"What we've seen since Dec. 1 is softer retail sales, and that seems to be continuing. That obviously means we can't keep our people busy full time," said Andrew Sears, the company's vice-president of manufacturing.

Underwear company to shrink work week to save jobs

Two-hundred employees at an underwear manufacturing company in Nova Scotia can expect to be working a four-day week next month to avoid layoffs.

The work-sharing plan involves half the workforce at the Stanfield's operation in Truro.

"What we've seen since Dec. 1 is softer retail sales, and that seems to be continuing. That obviously means we can't keep our people busy full time," said Andrew Sears, the company's vice-president of manufacturing.

Underwear company to shrink work week to save jobs

Two-hundred employees at an underwear manufacturing company in Nova Scotia can expect to be working a four-day week next month to avoid layoffs.

The work-sharing plan involves half the workforce at the Stanfield's operation in Truro.

"What we've seen since Dec. 1 is softer retail sales, and that seems to be continuing. That obviously means we can't keep our people busy full time," said Andrew Sears, the company's vice-president of manufacturing.

Underwear company to shrink work week to save jobs

Two-hundred employees at an underwear manufacturing company in Nova Scotia can expect to be working a four-day week next month to avoid layoffs.

The work-sharing plan involves half the workforce at the Stanfield's operation in Truro.

"What we've seen since Dec. 1 is softer retail sales, and that seems to be continuing. That obviously means we can't keep our people busy full time," said Andrew Sears, the company's vice-president of manufacturing.

Underwear company to shrink work week to save jobs

Two-hundred employees at an underwear manufacturing company in Nova Scotia can expect to be working a four-day week next month to avoid layoffs.

The work-sharing plan involves half the workforce at the Stanfield's operation in Truro.

"What we've seen since Dec. 1 is softer retail sales, and that seems to be continuing. That obviously means we can't keep our people busy full time," said Andrew Sears, the company's vice-president of manufacturing.

Underwear company to shrink work week to save jobs

Two-hundred employees at an underwear manufacturing company in Nova Scotia can expect to be working a four-day week next month to avoid layoffs.

The work-sharing plan involves half the workforce at the Stanfield's operation in Truro.

"What we've seen since Dec. 1 is softer retail sales, and that seems to be continuing. That obviously means we can't keep our people busy full time," said Andrew Sears, the company's vice-president of manufacturing.

Underwear company to shrink work week to save jobs

Two-hundred employees at an underwear manufacturing company in Nova Scotia can expect to be working a four-day week next month to avoid layoffs.

The work-sharing plan involves half the workforce at the Stanfield's operation in Truro.

"What we've seen since Dec. 1 is softer retail sales, and that seems to be continuing. That obviously means we can't keep our people busy full time," said Andrew Sears, the company's vice-president of manufacturing.

Underwear company to shrink work week to save jobs

Two-hundred employees at an underwear manufacturing company in Nova Scotia can expect to be working a four-day week next month to avoid layoffs.

The work-sharing plan involves half the workforce at the Stanfield's operation in Truro.

"What we've seen since Dec. 1 is softer retail sales, and that seems to be continuing. That obviously means we can't keep our people busy full time," said Andrew Sears, the company's vice-president of manufacturing.

Underwear company to shrink work week to save jobs

Two-hundred employees at an underwear manufacturing company in Nova Scotia can expect to be working a four-day week next month to avoid layoffs.

The work-sharing plan involves half the workforce at the Stanfield's operation in Truro.

"What we've seen since Dec. 1 is softer retail sales, and that seems to be continuing. That obviously means we can't keep our people busy full time," said Andrew Sears, the company's vice-president of manufacturing.

Underwear company to shrink work week to save jobs

Two-hundred employees at an underwear manufacturing company in Nova Scotia can expect to be working a four-day week next month to avoid layoffs.

The work-sharing plan involves half the workforce at the Stanfield's operation in Truro.

"What we've seen since Dec. 1 is softer retail sales, and that seems to be continuing. That obviously means we can't keep our people busy full time," said Andrew Sears, the company's vice-president of manufacturing.

Underwear company to shrink work week to save jobs

Two-hundred employees at an underwear manufacturing company in Nova Scotia can expect to be working a four-day week next month to avoid layoffs.

The work-sharing plan involves half the workforce at the Stanfield's operation in Truro.

"What we've seen since Dec. 1 is softer retail sales, and that seems to be continuing. That obviously means we can't keep our people busy full time," said Andrew Sears, the company's vice-president of manufacturing.

Underwear company to shrink work week to save jobs

Two-hundred employees at an underwear manufacturing company in Nova Scotia can expect to be working a four-day week next month to avoid layoffs.

The work-sharing plan involves half the workforce at the Stanfield's operation in Truro.

"What we've seen since Dec. 1 is softer retail sales, and that seems to be continuing. That obviously means we can't keep our people busy full time," said Andrew Sears, the company's vice-president of manufacturing.

Underwear company to shrink work week to save jobs

Two-hundred employees at an underwear manufacturing company in Nova Scotia can expect to be working a four-day week next month to avoid layoffs.

The work-sharing plan involves half the workforce at the Stanfield's operation in Truro.

"What we've seen since Dec. 1 is softer retail sales, and that seems to be continuing. That obviously means we can't keep our people busy full time," said Andrew Sears, the company's vice-president of manufacturing.

Underwear company to shrink work week to save jobs

Two-hundred employees at an underwear manufacturing company in Nova Scotia can expect to be working a four-day week next month to avoid layoffs.

The work-sharing plan involves half the workforce at the Stanfield's operation in Truro.

"What we've seen since Dec. 1 is softer retail sales, and that seems to be continuing. That obviously means we can't keep our people busy full time," said Andrew Sears, the company's vice-president of manufacturing.

Oakley council member fined for gift received in 2005

An Oakley council member has been fined by a state agency for basketball tickets he received nearly four years ago.

Councilman Kevin Romick was fined $390 by the Fair Political Practices Commission for accepting tickets to a Golden State Warriors game in 2005 from developer KB Homes after it installed refurbished basketball courts at Oakley School.

Romick said he, his wife and two daughters were given tickets to the game by the developer, which was recognized during halftime. Councilwoman Pat Anderson was also given tickets to the game, which was City of Oakley night.

Oakley council member fined for gift received in 2005

An Oakley council member has been fined by a state agency for basketball tickets he received nearly four years ago.

Councilman Kevin Romick was fined $390 by the Fair Political Practices Commission for accepting tickets to a Golden State Warriors game in 2005 from developer KB Homes after it installed refurbished basketball courts at Oakley School.

Romick said he, his wife and two daughters were given tickets to the game by the developer, which was recognized during halftime. Councilwoman Pat Anderson was also given tickets to the game, which was City of Oakley night.

Oakley council member fined for gift received in 2005

An Oakley council member has been fined by a state agency for basketball tickets he received nearly four years ago.

Councilman Kevin Romick was fined $390 by the Fair Political Practices Commission for accepting tickets to a Golden State Warriors game in 2005 from developer KB Homes after it installed refurbished basketball courts at Oakley School.

Romick said he, his wife and two daughters were given tickets to the game by the developer, which was recognized during halftime. Councilwoman Pat Anderson was also given tickets to the game, which was City of Oakley night.

Oakley council member fined for gift received in 2005

An Oakley council member has been fined by a state agency for basketball tickets he received nearly four years ago.

Councilman Kevin Romick was fined $390 by the Fair Political Practices Commission for accepting tickets to a Golden State Warriors game in 2005 from developer KB Homes after it installed refurbished basketball courts at Oakley School.

Romick said he, his wife and two daughters were given tickets to the game by the developer, which was recognized during halftime. Councilwoman Pat Anderson was also given tickets to the game, which was City of Oakley night.

California's middling online record performance

California may be America's hub of technological innovation, but it ranks in the middle of the country in providing government information to the public online, according to an audit released recently.

Texas ranked first. It was the only state that provided Internet access to all 20 types of records that were surveyed — from school bus safety documents to performance audits to reports on gas stations that skimp on a gallon of fuel.

California's middling online record performance

California may be America's hub of technological innovation, but it ranks in the middle of the country in providing government information to the public online, according to an audit released recently.

Texas ranked first. It was the only state that provided Internet access to all 20 types of records that were surveyed — from school bus safety documents to performance audits to reports on gas stations that skimp on a gallon of fuel.

California's middling online record performance

California may be America's hub of technological innovation, but it ranks in the middle of the country in providing government information to the public online, according to an audit released recently.

Texas ranked first. It was the only state that provided Internet access to all 20 types of records that were surveyed — from school bus safety documents to performance audits to reports on gas stations that skimp on a gallon of fuel.

California's middling online record performance

California may be America's hub of technological innovation, but it ranks in the middle of the country in providing government information to the public online, according to an audit released recently.

Texas ranked first. It was the only state that provided Internet access to all 20 types of records that were surveyed — from school bus safety documents to performance audits to reports on gas stations that skimp on a gallon of fuel.

California's middling online record performance

California may be America's hub of technological innovation, but it ranks in the middle of the country in providing government information to the public online, according to an audit released recently.

Texas ranked first. It was the only state that provided Internet access to all 20 types of records that were surveyed — from school bus safety documents to performance audits to reports on gas stations that skimp on a gallon of fuel.

California's middling online record performance

California may be America's hub of technological innovation, but it ranks in the middle of the country in providing government information to the public online, according to an audit released recently.

Texas ranked first. It was the only state that provided Internet access to all 20 types of records that were surveyed — from school bus safety documents to performance audits to reports on gas stations that skimp on a gallon of fuel.

California's middling online record performance

California may be America's hub of technological innovation, but it ranks in the middle of the country in providing government information to the public online, according to an audit released recently.

Texas ranked first. It was the only state that provided Internet access to all 20 types of records that were surveyed — from school bus safety documents to performance audits to reports on gas stations that skimp on a gallon of fuel.

California's middling online record performance

California may be America's hub of technological innovation, but it ranks in the middle of the country in providing government information to the public online, according to an audit released recently.

Texas ranked first. It was the only state that provided Internet access to all 20 types of records that were surveyed — from school bus safety documents to performance audits to reports on gas stations that skimp on a gallon of fuel.

California's middling online record performance

California may be America's hub of technological innovation, but it ranks in the middle of the country in providing government information to the public online, according to an audit released recently.

Texas ranked first. It was the only state that provided Internet access to all 20 types of records that were surveyed — from school bus safety documents to performance audits to reports on gas stations that skimp on a gallon of fuel.

Right wing to get its time at Berkeley

BERKELEY — Conservative politics are coming to UC Berkeley — at least in an academic sense.

An anonymous donor has given $777,000 to the university to establish a Center for the Comparative Study of Right-wing Movements. Researchers will study the right wing in other countries and its relationship to U.S. movements.

Conservative movements have been largely ignored in academia, said Larry Rosenthal, a sociologist who will oversee the center.

State court upholds tuna canners' exemptions

A state appeals court on Wednesday refused to reverse a 2006 court decision exempting tuna canners from California's toxic substances warning law.

The decision by a three-judge panel in the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco is the latest setback in a five-year quest by the California Attorney General's Office to compel tuna companies to issue advisories about the health risks of tuna consumption at either the point of purchase, on product labels or through public education campaigns.

S.F. prosecutor tapped by Obama to investigate terror suspect interrogation policy

A federal prosecutor in San Francisco will lead a task force investigating the government's policies on interrogating terrorism suspects, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Wilson, now chief of the National Security Unit in the U.S. attorney's office for the Northern District of California, will lead the task force created under President Barack Obama's Jan. 22 executive order seeking to balance national security needs with American human rights values.

Right wing to get its time at Berkeley

BERKELEY — Conservative politics are coming to UC Berkeley — at least in an academic sense.

An anonymous donor has given $777,000 to the university to establish a Center for the Comparative Study of Right-wing Movements. Researchers will study the right wing in other countries and its relationship to U.S. movements.

Conservative movements have been largely ignored in academia, said Larry Rosenthal, a sociologist who will oversee the center.

State court upholds tuna canners' exemptions

A state appeals court on Wednesday refused to reverse a 2006 court decision exempting tuna canners from California's toxic substances warning law.

The decision by a three-judge panel in the 1st District Court of Appeal in San Francisco is the latest setback in a five-year quest by the California Attorney General's Office to compel tuna companies to issue advisories about the health risks of tuna consumption at either the point of purchase, on product labels or through public education campaigns.

S.F. prosecutor tapped by Obama to investigate terror suspect interrogation policy

A federal prosecutor in San Francisco will lead a task force investigating the government's policies on interrogating terrorism suspects, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Wilson, now chief of the National Security Unit in the U.S. attorney's office for the Northern District of California, will lead the task force created under President Barack Obama's Jan. 22 executive order seeking to balance national security needs with American human rights values.

Voters almost got left out of Tuesday's Alamo incorporation vote

Contra Costa County election workers spent Friday delivering sample ballots and other election materials by hand to a few dozen Alamo voters who were accidentally left off the mailing lists for Tuesday's vote.

Meanwhile, both sides of Measure A, which if passed will incorporate the area into a town, entered their final weekend of campaigning on the hotly debated issue. On the ballot are more than a dozen candidates, most of whom support incorporation, vying for five council seats if the measure passes. The top vote-getters will be elected.

Voters almost got left out of Tuesday's Alamo incorporation vote

Contra Costa County election workers spent Friday delivering sample ballots and other election materials by hand to a few dozen Alamo voters who were accidentally left off the mailing lists for Tuesday's vote.

Meanwhile, both sides of Measure A, which if passed will incorporate the area into a town, entered their final weekend of campaigning on the hotly debated issue. On the ballot are more than a dozen candidates, most of whom support incorporation, vying for five council seats if the measure passes. The top vote-getters will be elected.

Voters almost got left out of Tuesday's Alamo incorporation vote

Contra Costa County election workers spent Friday delivering sample ballots and other election materials by hand to a few dozen Alamo voters who were accidentally left off the mailing lists for Tuesday's vote.

Meanwhile, both sides of Measure A, which if passed will incorporate the area into a town, entered their final weekend of campaigning on the hotly debated issue. On the ballot are more than a dozen candidates, most of whom support incorporation, vying for five council seats if the measure passes. The top vote-getters will be elected.

Voters almost got left out of Tuesday's Alamo incorporation vote

Contra Costa County election workers spent Friday delivering sample ballots and other election materials by hand to a few dozen Alamo voters who were accidentally left off the mailing lists for Tuesday's vote.

Meanwhile, both sides of Measure A, which if passed will incorporate the area into a town, entered their final weekend of campaigning on the hotly debated issue. On the ballot are more than a dozen candidates, most of whom support incorporation, vying for five council seats if the measure passes. The top vote-getters will be elected.

Voters almost got left out of Tuesday's Alamo incorporation vote

Contra Costa County election workers spent Friday delivering sample ballots and other election materials by hand to a few dozen Alamo voters who were accidentally left off the mailing lists for Tuesday's vote.

Meanwhile, both sides of Measure A, which if passed will incorporate the area into a town, entered their final weekend of campaigning on the hotly debated issue. On the ballot are more than a dozen candidates, most of whom support incorporation, vying for five council seats if the measure passes. The top vote-getters will be elected.

Voters almost got left out of Tuesday's Alamo incorporation vote

Contra Costa County election workers spent Friday delivering sample ballots and other election materials by hand to a few dozen Alamo voters who were accidentally left off the mailing lists for Tuesday's vote.

Meanwhile, both sides of Measure A, which if passed will incorporate the area into a town, entered their final weekend of campaigning on the hotly debated issue. On the ballot are more than a dozen candidates, most of whom support incorporation, vying for five council seats if the measure passes. The top vote-getters will be elected.

Voters almost got left out of Tuesday's Alamo incorporation vote

Contra Costa County election workers spent Friday delivering sample ballots and other election materials by hand to a few dozen Alamo voters who were accidentally left off the mailing lists for Tuesday's vote.

Meanwhile, both sides of Measure A, which if passed will incorporate the area into a town, entered their final weekend of campaigning on the hotly debated issue. On the ballot are more than a dozen candidates, most of whom support incorporation, vying for five council seats if the measure passes. The top vote-getters will be elected.

Multiple-defendant, gang-related homicide cases costing Contra Costa County

Contra Costa's campaign to contain gang violence has turned up an unanticipated cost by greatly multiplying the number of private attorneys paid with taxpayer dollars to defend people held on murder charges.

In the most prominent example this year, eight of nine gang members accused of killing five people in West Contra Costa must be represented by private attorneys, stretching a depleted special fund the county expects to be $1.3 million in the red at the end of the fiscal year.

Multiple-defendant, gang-related homicide cases costing Contra Costa County

Contra Costa's campaign to contain gang violence has turned up an unanticipated cost by greatly multiplying the number of private attorneys paid with taxpayer dollars to defend people held on murder charges.

In the most prominent example this year, eight of nine gang members accused of killing five people in West Contra Costa must be represented by private attorneys, stretching a depleted special fund the county expects to be $1.3 million in the red at the end of the fiscal year.

Multiple-defendant, gang-related homicide cases costing Contra Costa County

Contra Costa's campaign to contain gang violence has turned up an unanticipated cost by greatly multiplying the number of private attorneys paid with taxpayer dollars to defend people held on murder charges.

In the most prominent example this year, eight of nine gang members accused of killing five people in West Contra Costa must be represented by private attorneys, stretching a depleted special fund the county expects to be $1.3 million in the red at the end of the fiscal year.